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Why I still use RAR instead of 7z
- josephcsible 4y ago> First, you can't preview images in a 7z file. If you have a 7z archive full of JPG images, open it up and double-click, you'll get an error in Windows that says the image can't be viewed. WinRAR on the other hand has no problem previewing images. But I just tried that for myself and it worked fine. > Said honestly, if 7-Zip had the ability to preview images properly, I'd probably switch to it even though it doesn't have a recovery record option. When I archive my digital camera photos, I like easy preview access from within the archive, but 7-Zip just doesn't do that. I could deal with the no-recovery-option and the stupid .001 files, but no image previews? Total deal-breaker. So basically the entire premise of this article is built on a falsehood.
- eternityforest 4y agoRecovery records are nice, but it seems like the lower layers are getting more reliable, and at the same time less likely to give you any data at all if there is corruption. Particularly anything encrypted will probably think a bitflip is a case of tampering, and things are way less likely to slip by than they would be with a CRC. Nonfree formats are a pretty big annoyance. But 7z is still highly non-ideal. I still want someone to make a modernized sqlite zip format, that lets us fulltext search, add metadata, and has error correction for the data itself, with deduplication, deletion tracking, and efficient merges. No reason we shouldn't be able to update an archive file in place with a smaller update file. Alternatively, someone should invent a plaintext archive file. There's no reason a .odt file shouldn't be version controllable. a few images will fit comfortably in base64.